Maximus Indiucs Quiz -Mixed Bag

1) If Beijing means Northern Capital, and Tokyo means Eastern Capital, then which capital city's name means simply "Capital".

SEOUL


2) This Pacific island was discovered in 1568 by Alvaro De Mendana, and his subordinate named it after his hometown in Spain. This town in Seville, gets it's name from an Arabic word Wadi Al Khanat, meaning Valley of the Stalls, and it's Spanish version was used. The island was the site of a fierce battle in WW2, between American and Japanese forces.

IWO JIMA.

3) Connect the 2 images.



THE RAFT IS KON TIKI, THE IMAGE IS THAT OF THE POLYNESIAN SUN GOD, AFTER WHOM IT WAS NAMED.

4) In Time Magazine's 1999 List of 20 Most Influential Asians of the 20th century, there are only 3 Indians. Two of them are Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. Who is the 3rd?

GOT MANY MOTHER THERESA AS ANSWERS, BUT IT IS M.S.SWAMINATHAN, FATHER OF AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION IN INDIA.

5) This scientist was born in Vaversunda in Sweden and he later graduated in medicine from Uppasala University. In 1807 he joined as professor of chemistry at Karolinska Institute.He is famous for law of constant proportions and also the system of chemical notation. He is also the first person to differentiate between organic and inorganic compounds. Name him.

J.J. BERZELIUS

6) The Sons of the Desert is the name of an group started by John McCabe in 1965. He was an admirer and a biographer of this famous comic duo. The group now has chapters all over the world, and each chapter is called as a tent. Each tent is named after one of the duo's famous movies. The group itself takes its name from one of the duo's most well known movie. Which comic duo is this?

LAUREL AND HARDY

7) This nobleman and astronomer was born in the Danish town of Scania. While studying law at University of Copenhagen in 1559, he became interested in astronomy and started to create his own instruments. He discovered a supernova star in 1572. Johannes Kepler was his assistant, and he used his data to come up with the now famous laws of planetary motion. This person was also famous for his artificial nose made of gold, as he had lost part of it in a duel.

TYCO BRAHE

8) Identify this famous Urdu poet in the picture. His original pen name was Asad, but he adopted a later pen name which means all conquering, superior.

MIRZA GHALIB

9) Identify the famous battle field where this memorial and cemetery is located.

AGAIN GOT MANY WATERLOO RESPONSES, BUT IT WAS GETTYSBURG.

10) In which nation did the "8888 uprising" take place. It is so called, because university students started it demanding more democracy on Aug 8,1988(8-8-88).

MYANMAR.

Scores

Sujatha-2
Bharath-3
Aishwarya Raj-7
Abhi Binani-4
Anubhav-1
Pranav-5
Kamal-6
Anand Shankar-3
Prashanth-6
Deepanshu-4
Hussain-3
Kuldeep-10
Tarun-5